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Michael Wriston, of Project Salt Box, Has Appeared on Cable Evening News Multiple Times.
New documents show ICE’s co-working push has become a live contract with a targeted June start date and 330 personnel whose job functions the solicitation does not identify according to a press release received this afternoon from Michael Wriston and Em Knepp of Project Salt Box, a non-profit that is committed to transparency and accountability regarding the Department of Homeland Security’s expanding footprint. The press release says:
A federal solicitation reviewed by Project Salt Box shows that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has moved well beyond preliminary planning in its effort to place hundreds of employees in commercial co-working spaces across the country — and a key clarification buried in the procurement record complicates the picture.
Co-working spaces are shared commercial offices — operated by companies like WeWork or IWG — that rent desks and private offices to individuals and organizations on flexible, short-term terms rather than traditional multi-year leases. Tenants typically share common areas…..and may occupy the same floor as unrelated private-sector companies.
As “PSB” previously reported, ICE published a request for information in March seeking flexible office space for more than 300 personnel in nearly 100 cities across 42 states and Puerto Rico. That market research has since become a live solicitation — number 70CMSW26Q00000009 — issued through ICE’s office of Asset and Facilities Management.
ICE is seeking space for 330 full-time employees across 90 locations, from Houston, where 22 workers would be placed, to more than a dozen cities where a single desk would suffice. Vendors who win the contract would have 15 business days from award to stand up all locations simultaneously. The period of performance runs from June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2007, with leases covering a desk or private office. WI-FI and printing access and the ability to scale headcount up or down at any location after award.
But a question and answer document appended to the solicitation cuts against the most obvious explanation for the expansion. Asked whether the spaces are intended for uninformed officers, administrative staff, or a combination, the government’s answer was unambiguous: “This requirement is not intended for law enforcement officers.”
Geographically, the solicitation is broad. Locations include predictble urban enforcement hubs – New York, Miami, Houston — alongside smaller cities with no immediately apparent connection to immigration operations, among them, Savage, Montana, Concho, AZ and Bryan, TX.
Two listed locations, Crawford, RI and Maynes, WI, do not correpond to any recognized municipalities.
ICE has not said publicly who the 330 personnel are. This is, by the government’s own account, without precedent. Asked about past performance on similar workspace contrats, the contracting office stated that no previous comparable contracts have been awarded.
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